All of the following advisers and consultants are available for part-time work. Several are available for full-time contract work. As a group, we can bid on both hourly and fixed price contracts. Please contact bob at linuxappliancedesign dot com for more information. Bob Smith Bob has 25 years of experience building both embedded systems and network management systems. Bob was the founder, President, and CTO of Fourelle Systems Incorporated (now Venturi Wireless). Venturi built a Linux-based network appliance to compress and accelerator data for satellite and cellular telephony systems. Venturi's technology is also used by cellular providers including Verizon, Bell Mobility, O2, China Mobile, and KDDI Pocket. Selling to companies such as A.G. Edwards and Verizon gave Bob a deep appreciation of the real requirements for a successful network appliance. He was the lead author of the No Starch Press book "Linux Appliance Design" and has most recently been supporting embedded Linux on a full-featured cellular telephone. Ken Reed Ken graduated from the University of Manchester (England). with a B Sc. Physics/Electronic Engineering. He has worked in production engineering and reliability analysis, where he improved 12-month field failure rate of electronic ignition module from 7% to less than 0.5%. Ken's recent work is in embedded 8/16 bit uP development, pcb and mechanical design for high volume production. Ken is the founder of KRB Engineering which designs various remote diagnostic systems for sale to OEMs. KRB Engineering can handle all facets from customer specification, contract negotiation, hardware design (mechanical, packaging & pcb), PLD design, embedded uP firmware design/debug. One KRB device, the MARS+, has shipped almost 10K units and existing production of another product, the Data Director, is close to 3K units. Ken is currently developing Linux-based system for ether/RS232 based remote diagnostics using the Atmel AVR32 uC. Anna Schaller Anna has over 20 years experience in the software industry. She began her career as a software engineer at Carnegie Mellon University. She spent the better part of 10 years transitioning to other companies as well as various engineering and management positions. Along the way she made the move into technical writing, and has spent the last 12 years refining writing skills while learning the tools of the trade. She has worked on many facets of publication, and has developed an understanding of what it takes to incorporate written material into an engineering project. Ewa Matejska Ewa has been working on embedded development environments for the past seven years. She is currently working as an SDK Lead Engineer at ACCESS Systems Americas for their ACCESS Linux Platform product. Previously she was on the MULTI development suite team at Green Hills software. She has experience developing products to work with embedded systems of various architectures; X86, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, and other. Ewa received her Engineering and Applied Science degree at the California Institute of Technology. Don Mahurin Don is a software engineer with more than ten years experience using and developing Linux software as well as a few more years of development experience with UNIX. His recent experience has been focused on a variety of small or embedded systems related to telephony such as VoIP phones, smart home phones, mobile phones, and VoIP server systems. He actively uses and contributes to open source, believing that even a small change can have a great impact when combined with the works of others. Waddah Kudaimi Waddah has been working in the technology fields of security, mobile operating system and networking for over 19 years as an engineering manager, software engineer, college instructor, quality assurance engineer and university lecturer. His most recent experience includes building a cryptographically secure software update mechanism. He is CISSP certified. John Hardin John has been programing professionally since the introduction of the first 8-bit microprocessor and bi-sync datacom. The cut his teeth on terminal firmware, wrote SNA communications software for HP 3000s and was one of the original developers of HP's Openview network management software. After 14 years at HP, he left to work at Network General, integrating expert systems software into their distributed network analyzer system. Then, after developing an SNMP-based capacity planning appliance for Clairvoyant Software, he joined Fourelle Systems (now Venturi Wireless) where he created the Venturi MIB an extended the Net-SNMP agent to implement it. David Moffatt David has worked in high tech since 1992. He specializes in software performance. He worked in the large systems division of HP doing tuning benchmarks. He worked at a start-up, Narus, doing high throughput network appliance. He worked at another, Know-Now, start-up doing high throughput web transactions. He is currently working at Access, a cell phone software vendor, developing tools. David has a BS and a master's degree from Indiana University in computer science. Jeffrey Osier-Mixon Jeffrey has, as a technical writer, created templates and style guides, writing practices, and all kinds of internal and customer-visible documentation, including user guides, programmer's guides and API manuals, technical software specifications, white papers, and online help. He has written and maintained processor specifications, development and manufacturing guides, and detailed release notes. Additionally, he has provided editorial support and creative work for marketing groups, including articles, presentations, illustrations, web pages, customer letters, trade show flyers, and posters and other sales collateral. David Fiamingo David, a 30 year technology industry veteran with a passion for Information Technology. David served in the United States Navy as a communications systems specialist and supervisor followed by a number of senior technical and management positions in the cable television industry. He has also worked in Aviation Electronics for a major airline followed by numerous IT consulting and management positions at start-up companies and other small businesses. David is the founder of AVS Communications, Inc. an IT Consulting and Management company. Most recently David helped to launch Sling Media, Inc. the makers of the SlingBox streaming media appliance and served as their sole IT department well into their third year, managing both office and production data center environments as well as assisting in QA Testing. Prior to Sling Media David consulted with Mailblocks, Inc. which was acquired by AOL to build out and maintain their production email hosting environment. Ranjan Parthasarathy Ranjan brings over 8 years of experience in the technology industry where he has built commercial x86, mips and ARM embedded products. He has extensive experience with system software development and has worked with linux and open source technologies for over 12 years. His systems software experience includes developing bios, kernel, driver and other OS software. Currently, Ranjan is managing a software development team building system management software at Sun Microsystems. Ranjan holds a MS in EE with a major in Computer Systems from Stanford University. As a volunteer, he supports the Spark Program as a Board member and Treasurer.